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Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 9h

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 12h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 11h

Another mirroring illusion for your puzzling pleasure, created by @eijiwatanabe.bsky.social, demonstrated by @sinalana.bsky.social at #ALIFE2025. ⚙️🧫

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

Best poster title #ALIFE2025

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

Forgot: #ALIFE2025

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

If you haven't yet, come see our poster designed by my coauthor Harrison.
Tl;dr: if some lifeforms were going around terraforming planets, we could detect them* even without a working definition of "life" or "habitability"

*terms and conditions apply

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

If you haven't yet, come see our poster designed by my coauthor Harrison.
Tl;dr: if some lifeforms were going around terraforming planets, we could detect them* even without a working definition of "life" or "habitability"

*terms and conditions apply

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing title slide I have to share before even watching @scriptingjapan.bsky.social

youtu.be/TElWjeFmtl4?...

X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 16h

I don't know if that's exactly the same thing, but I imagine it could be linked.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 16h

And because I'm not going to repeat myself a 6th time when you once again pretend not to understand what I wrote, I'm muting you. Good luck out there.

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 16h

I don't understand what you don't understand or why you keep twisting my words. Who said "the media treats disabled people the same"?
I said, for the 5th time now, that articles criticize the use of AI to generate media bullying able bodied people. There are dozens of such articles. Look it up.

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 17h

Pietro Miotti proposes Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata
#ALIFE2025

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 17h

They do! My 1st Gmail address was created in China (of all places...) and the behavior was quite different from other people's french addresses while that lasted.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 17h

Why do you keep saying that such articles don't exist for able bodied people, when every single answer of mine is telling you there are dozens of such articles about able bodied people.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 17h

What are you talking about. My point is there are dozens of critical articles about deepfakes of AB people.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 18h

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Therefore we have decided to change your account region to Oregon. If you don't like it fill this form, that will reject your request because your account is already in Japan."

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 19h

He's beaten up and loses in every of these scenarios. It hasn't been ok when it was done to able people either, I don't know where you saw it was. Never seen an article not denouncing it.
If you enjoy those it's your personal preference, not ableism on the part of the article.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 21h

I'm excited to share the news that our climate change project won the @spspnews.bsky.social Robert Cialdini Prize for a "paper that uses field methods and demonstrates the relevance of social psychology to outside groups and communities"!

You can read it here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 20h

*ready

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 20h

The government has been constantly grooming the population with nationalism, exceptionalism, and xenophobia for centuries. It's always really to boil over.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 20h

Well, in this case there was never really a "let's get away from fascist thought" to begin with, unless most other countries, so it's not really "starting to go down" and more "continuing on the same old path"

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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics @mpi-cbg.de · 1d

Jonathan Rodenfels @mpi-cbg.de, Pablo Sartori @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, and Tommaso Cossetto identified two thermodynamic rules governing the growth and energy utilization of single-celled organisms. Publication in @nature.com Communications. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

Cracking organisms’ energy code

Researchers define rules governing how growing microorganisms use energy efficiently

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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 1d

Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments?
🌎🦠🧪

I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship.

Please reach out if interested!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777

McGill University, Trottier Space Institute

Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the families of hostages protesting some of the actions of the government actually. You'd think if anything could have had an effect it would have been that...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

I think "what should have been done" is hard to apply here because by that point their government was already acting like an uncontrollable rabid beast, impossible to reason with, enabled by every other government including mine.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

Today: what is the morphological/behavioral space of things you can get out of executing sets of genetic instructions that were not selected for through evolution? (natural example: various galls; artificial example: xenobot)